Thermaltake V9 BlacX

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Introduction

New ideas often originate, ironically, from other ideas. We see something, figure out what makes it successful, then dream up ways to improve it and tweak it, then set out to make it a reality, hoping that we actually do make something better by the end. We see it in the world of architecture, cars,and believe it or not in the world of computers.

Today we’re looking at a new mid-tower chassis from Thermaltake that looks eerily familiar, seeming to channel the essence of something we’ve seen before from Thermaltake. In fact, the new V9 BlacX is an evolution of the vanilla V9 mid-tower case. Whereas the V9 showed some promise but offered nothing terribly original, the BlacX version does exactly that by incorporating a hard drive and solid state drive docking bay right into the chassis itself.

Priced at about $100, the V9 BlacX appears to offer some great value for what’s included here. Let’s take the V9 BlacX for a test drive and see whether Thermaltake has been successful with this updated version.

?Since the beginning of Thermaltake in 1999, it has been at the forefront of creating new and exciting products at a time where most computer users were provided little to no choices for components that may seem irrelevant, but are in reality crucial to the performance of a PC. Thermaltake Server Series solutions, with years of thermal experience and industry leadership, sets its goal on reforming total thermal management in the server segment by formulating the perfect mixture of versatility, efficiency and thermal management with each respective server product category: Rackmount Chassis, Server Fixed & Redundant Power Supply and Server CPU Cooling Management Solutions.?